Super black technology island

Chapter 98 SF Express and DJI

Had a meal in the evening to celebrate the successful signing of the contract.

On the second day, Du Gang hurriedly led the team back to the imperial capital.

There are still a lot of things at hand, so don't get in the way of Wang Chen's eyes here.

Kim San-shik also started making relevant preparations after the contract.

Especially in terms of new energy, Jin Sanshi went directly to BYD's headquarters by plane.

In order to face subsequent large orders, BYD must stand up as the only cooperative manufacturer.

Although the gate of science and technology also needs to increase production capacity, it needs to leave enough funds to deal with the upcoming island construction.

Not only that, Wang Chen has started acting like a monster these two days to let Jin Sanshi leave enough space on the ground that he approved before.

Wang Chen didn't say what he was going to do, but asked Jin Sanshi to build a few large high-standard factories first.

Based on Jin Sanshi's understanding of Wang Chen, this is definitely the rhythm of doing things.

So just in case, you must set aside enough funds.

And here in the laboratory.

After seeing off Du Gang, Wang Chen also entered a busy state.

The orders placed through internal channels have been completed one after another, and various spare parts are almost filling up the few spaces in the laboratory.

Wang Chen also decided to officially start the robot development plan in May. This may be the last time he will personally toss the project for a long time.
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In mid-April, when Wang Chen was hiding in the laboratory and busy.

The boss at the DJI headquarters received a call.

The two sides chatted for about an hour, and when the phone was hung up, the boss of DJI also showed a trace of thought on his face.

This call was made by the boss of SF Express. To be honest, the company does not have much connection with the express delivery industry.

Receiving a call from SF Express is also a bit overwhelming.

However, the helm of SF Express talked about something that interested him very much.

That is to build a new logistics system based on drones.

To be honest, I have also considered the development prospects of drones in the field of express delivery before.

It’s just that without the combination of artificial intelligence, this solution is somewhat unreliable.

In particular, the population density in China is very high. If the safety cannot be guaranteed, the higher authorities will not approve this project.

SF Express is also very clear about this.

It's just that they came up with a very interesting solution.

That is to upgrade most of the current rider training to flight controllers.

Set up flight control centers in every large city.

Human control is used to ensure that the drone can deliver objects to the target safely and punctually.

This proposal is indeed novel enough. Using manpower to ensure the safety of drones can indeed improve the level of safety.

The most important thing is that the upgrade cost is not high, and SF Express can fully support it with its current system.

And with drones, many places that could not be delivered before can also be developed.

For example, some mountain villages.

These places that are more troublesome by manpower can be quickly reached by drones.

Once this system is successful, SF Express can take advantage of the current decadence.

One thing to say, from the words of the boss of SF Express, it can be heard that they attach great importance to this project.

Of course, Dajiang also understands the situation that SF Express is facing now, after all, their life is not easy now.

Judging from the current situation, SF's deposit profit has dropped by 80.00% compared with before.

The most important reason is that there is no supporting e-commerce platform behind them.

Although it suppressed all connections and one reach in the past, with the continuous development of e-commerce and the involution of the industry.

The advantages of SF Express have gradually disappeared.

Nowadays, e-commerce platforms such as Taobao, Pinduoduo, and JD.com have the most express deliveries. Sitong Yida has firmly occupied the territory of Taobao and Tmall, and has become the main force in the express delivery market with a large number of orders.

Jitu is exclusive to Pinduoduo, and has successfully entered the domestic market with the rapid rise of Pinduoduo.JD Logistics is also supported by JD Mall behind it, but what about SF Express?
There is no fixed e-commerce platform to support it. Although it focuses on the mid-to-high-end market, it is obvious that this can no longer provide an advantage for SF Express's development.In addition, each company is fighting a price war. In 2010, the average unit price of the express delivery industry was 24.60 yuan, and by 2020 it has dropped to 10.55 yuan.

Although SF Express has always been at a high level in terms of price and has not participated in the price war, it has also been greatly affected.

Under the pressure of this trend, high-priced high-quality services can no longer keep up with the pace of industry development, so SF Express can only make adjustments.

Since 2019, SF Express has launched economic express products. With the weakening of the advantages of time-sensitive express delivery, these economic express deliveries have become the main source of SF Express’s income.However, the profit of such products is low for SF Express, so the overall income situation is not good.

This situation has been going on for a long time. Although SF Express has been looking for opportunities, the dilemma of no one behind them makes it difficult for them to turn around.

So they have been looking for an opportunity that can completely change the situation.

They had already thought of this plan when they announced the graphene battery from the gate of science and technology.

But the internal differences are a bit big, so it has been analyzing and researching.

However, as this year's financial report came out, looking at the losses that had already appeared on the books, the boss of SF Express couldn't sit still.

Sitong Yida and Jitu obviously want to kill themselves, and those e-commerce platforms cannot accept themselves at this time, they are all waiting for their death to occupy the market.

Continuing to raise funds at this time will only miss the overall situation, it is better to give it a go, anyway, the situation is already very bad.

So this plan, which has been studied for a long time, was put on the table again.

From the point of view of the situation, there are indeed great risks in promoting drone express delivery, but the agility and convenience brought by drones are indeed much better than manpower.

After all, people are going to the sky, and the delivery of small items is extremely cost-effective.

After internal research, if all the current SF Express's small items business is upgraded to drone delivery, then the efficiency can be increased by at least 40.00% if there are enough flight controllers.

This is not a small amount. You must know that the speed of SF Express is already very fast. Even now, only JD.com can match it.

The efficiency improved on this basis is all money.

So after more than two months of discussion, the boss of SF Express made this call to DJI.

Not only do they want to get customized models from DJI, but they even want to sign a strategic partnership, cutting off the way of other peers in one go.

And DJI has also shown enough interest. After all, the drones needed for this project are not a small amount, and it is all money.

The reason why I didn't immediately agree was to ask my superiors what they meant besides thinking about it myself.

Not only do you have to ask your superiors, but you also have to go to the flower factory to check.

Drones need 5G network to support them. Without the participation of flower factories, DJI alone will be powerless.

(End of this chapter)